ConfigFun: Beautiful configurations for your projects and gems

http://github.com/gammons/config_fun

DESCRIPTION:

Does your gem or project need the user to create or add configuration to it? Use ConfigFun to allow them to easily configure your gem, in a quick, terse and painless way!

SYNOPSIS:

Adding ConfigFun to your project is super easy. Include the config_fun gem as part of your gem's dependencies.

Say you need to write a configuration that allows the user to add their account information, name, password, and some IMAP information. With ConfigFun, the configuration could look like this:

account "personal" do
  name "grant"
  password "bungalow"

  imap do
    server "imap.gmail.com"
    ssl true
  end
end

To parse this configuration, you'd simply Say the following:

config = ConfigFun.parse!(File.read(account_information_file))

..and the config variable would include a sweet hash of all the info the user provided!

config == {:account=> {:password => "bungalow", :imap => {:ssl => true, :server => "imap.gmail.com"}, :name => "grant"}}

DETAILS:

Arrays

if ConfigFun encounters a block twice within the same context, it will create an array.

user do
  room "123"
end

user do
  room "456"
end

The resulting hash will have a :user key with an array of :rooms as the value.

{:user=>[{:room=>"123"}, {:room=>"456"}]}

An important caveat

Blocks do not take any paramters. You may be tempted to do something like the following:

user "Bob" do
  room "123"
end

ConfigFun will not be able to parse this, because there is no equivalent hash it can boil down to.

The correct way to write the above code for ConfigFun is as follows:

user do
  name "bob"
  room "123"
end

REQUIREMENTS:

• None!
• Tested against ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2.

INSTALL:

gem install config_fun

AUTHORS:

• Grant Ammons

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 Grant Ammons (grant@pipelinedealsco.com)

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